Halliburton Co., of which Dick Cheney used to be CEO, has been awarded a no-bid contract to put out fires set to Iraqi oil wells.

The biggest value of the contract, according to this CNN Money story, “could be that it puts Halliburton in a prime position to handle the complete refurbishment of Iraq’s long-neglected oil infrastructure, which will be a plum job.”

I don’t believe this war is solely or even primarily about oil. I think Dubya & Co. truly belive, wrongly, that Hussein’s regime is a threat to the United States. But this stinks as bad as an Iraqi oil fire.